WoW Least Expensive, Highest Value Form of Entertainment.

[Jaylock]

Comparing other forms of entertainment, here is what WoW costs:

For $20 You Get:

• Retail Game - Warlords
• 1 Month Included Game Time
• The Base Game + 5 expansions worth of content to explore
• Just leveling a character to 100 would be many hours worth of gameplay, but for sake of discussion ill say its 50 hours minimum

A person could play all month of their included game time and get literally hundreds of hours of entertainment out of a $20 dollar purchase.

For $20 at the Bar with friends you get:

• 3 glasses of beer
• Barely a buzz
• 2-3 hours of socializing
• Regret from going home alone

For another $50 you get the latest expansion, Legion. And with it you get:

• New Class
• New Areas to Explore
• New Lore
• New Dungeons / Raids
• This amounts to at least another 10-20 hours of leveling entertainment
• At max level, its another unlimited amount of hours of entertainment.

Now on top of the $50 price tag for the additional entertainment, you pay $15 per month to continue to play, which could contribute hundreds of hours a month of entertainment for a person. So if you were to look at the price per year, including base game / latest expansion / 12 months of game time you would pay:

$20 + $50 + $13*12 (if you bought your game time 6 months at a time). = $226 dollars PER YEAR. Lets say you play a very conservative 10 hours per week, thats 520 hours per year, which amounts to 43 cents per hour of entertainment. People play for much longer than 10 hours a week and it makes the value even better.

You can spend that much in 1 night out with friends bar hopping, buying food, etc. 1 NIGHT. out of 365.

What other form of entertainment provides as many hours as WoW for $15 bucks a month?

The Answer: 0

[Tisane]

Runescape, $9 a month.

[Blackmist]

A wank is free. Checkmate.

[Deleted]

I agree with you, wow is my cheapest hobby to date and probably provides me with the most entertainment.
Also how are you still not banned?

[Deleted]

You are right, Jaylock. Way too expensive.

[Thimagryn]

I'm enjoying tons out of Heroes of the Storm 2.0 right now. It's a pretty good value for both casual and hardcore play.

[Mhyroth]

"What other form of entertainment provides as many hours as WoW for $15 bucks a month?"

A friend, girlfriend.

[Pull My Finger]

Hard to refute.

[WowIsDead64]

If F2P games can do the same, then why should we pay? Paid game should worth it's price. If I can have the same crappy CRZed world with meaningless quests and 3-button style game mechanics in GW2, that is free, except recent xpack, then why should I buy Wow?

[Phasma]

Imagination. You may even earn money with this form of entertainment.

[Jaylock]

If F2P games can do the same, then why should we pay? Paid game should worth it's price. If I can have the same crappy CRZed world with meaningless quests and 3-button style game mechanics in GW2, that is free, except recent xpack, then why should I buy Wow?

F2P games are usually made from sub-par developers and the entertainment value dries up quick.

A triple A (AAA) title like WoW has a funded development team behind it and the subscription ensures the quality of the product. Blizzard is known for their world class quality in their games. So yeah, at $15 bucks a month, its a STEAL of a price to pay for that much quality entertainment.

[jackofwind]

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Tibia.

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F2P games are usually made from sub-par developers and the entertainment value dries up quick.

A triple A (AAA) title like WoW has a funded development team behind it and the subscription ensures the quality of the product. Blizzard is known for their world class quality in their games. So yeah, at $15 bucks a month, its a STEAL of a price to pay for that much quality entertainment.

AAA means nothing but a high development budget, it is not a scale of quality whatsoever.

[McNeil]

I wouldn't say its the highest form but its definately one of the better ones. Games like The Witcher 3 and Skyrim can also entertain me for way more value than its prize, at least months if I play casually.

[Zelk]

I play football 3 times a week for 1-2 hours for £10. Much better value considering it's much more fun. Also £5 for entry and a pint on Saturdays if I fancy watching my local club.

[FelPlague]

"What other form of entertainment provides as many hours as WoW for $15 bucks a month?"

A friend, girlfriend.

yes because having a girlfriend is free... nuh uh

[laplacedemon]

"What other form of entertainment provides as many hours as WoW for $15 bucks a month?"

A friend, girlfriend.

Yeah, if you're big on photosynthesis you might have fun doing nothing at all together with your girl-/friend.

[callipygoustp]

One of the biggest "bangs for the buck" entertainment wise.

[zezel81]

"What other form of entertainment provides as many hours as WoW for $15 bucks a month?"

A friend, girlfriend.

Hmmmm. I never new girlfriends or a friend is free.
Haha. Haha little do you know. Hahahaha.

[Deathquoi]

"What other form of entertainment provides as many hours as WoW for $15 bucks a month?"

A friend, girlfriend.

Ahahahahahaha a girlfriend? For 15 bucks a month?

[A dot Ham]

For $20 at the Bar with friends you get:


3 glasses of beer
Barely a buzz
2-3 hours of socializing
Regret from going home alone

You're either drinking really cheap beer, or you're an alcoholic.

If you're really interested in taking someone home. Go to a church function with singles.
Your numbers will easily be 4 times higher than the bar, and no risk of a date rape charge.